Don't let the fascists speak / Pat Parker --
once a marine biologist told me octopuses have three hearts / Denice Frohman --
I haven't had a Sazerac since Indiana / Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa --
Someday I'll love the ocean / Ocean Vuong --
Poem about police violence / June Jordan --
The [Black] outs : listen / Steffan Triplett --
Elegy with my mother's lipstick / Paul Tran --
Riot Act, April 29, 1992 / Ai --
Excerpt from Dream vision in blue and black / Ronaldo V. Wilson --
feeding my starving / Caleb Luna --
Quantitative reasoning / Chen Chen --
Layover / Jericho Brown --
On grace / Danez Smith --
for stan / Adrian Stanford --
Cenzóntle / Marcelo Hernandez Castillo --
Actually, yes, everything is about race / Madison Johnson --
Preference / Albert Park --
On the plane, I get so much ass / Arisa White --
Excerpt from Food / Tommy Pico --
Dominion / Carl Phillips --
Raise her dark matter / Lillian-Yvonne Bertram --
Sunday morning / Ariana Brown --
DataLounge - gay celebrity gossip, gay politics, gay news and pointless bitchery since 1995 / Meredith Talusan --
Ride the turtle's back / Beth Brand --
When Lillian posts pictures of food on Facebook, I tell her she makes me hungry / Ka'imilani Leota-Sellers --
American wedding / Essex Hemphill --
Untitled (for Andrea Smith) / Demian Dinéyazhi'
The cure for what ails you / Cameron Awkward-Rich --
I never wanted to speak / Eduardo Martinez-Leyva --
Things that stink / Monica Hand --
I have a time machine / Brenda Shaughnessy --
Open letter to Ian Birk, Seattle police office who shot John T. Williams on August 20, 2010 / Qwo-Li Driskell --
Warning / Langston Hughes --
A boy with baleen for teeth / Rajiv Mohabir --
Untitled (Destroying Flesh) / Juliana Huxtable
Wet dream / Allyson Ang --
Erasure of girlhood / Sarah Maria Medina --
She calls once that is a lie / Rosebud Ben-Oni --
Elegy for the living and breathing / Xandria Phillips --
Paisahood / Oswaldo Vargas --
The body in August / Robin Coste Lewis --
Maskot #1: "They sure do love them some black pain." / Phillip B. Williams --
Ghazal after Quebec City / Madiha Khan --
Excerpt from Inheritance / George Abraham --
Abuela dice que spilled salt goes over the shoulder / Julian Randall --
My first memory (of librarians) / Nikki Giovanni --
When a nigga calls you a faggot / Jayy Dodd --
The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window / Joy Harjo
transcript of an MTA audition / t'ai freedom ford --
2012 / Francisco Aragón --
if my slumlord allowed pets / Amber Atiya --
Pluto shits on the universe / Fatimah Asghar --
to whom it may concern: / Joy KMT --
Litanies to my heavenly brown body / Mark Arguhar --
I-797C Notice of Action / Jan-Henry Gray --
Catching copper / Natalie Diaz --
Ha ha ha niggers are the worst / Samiya Bashir --
Excerpt from Discipline / Dawn Lundy Martin --
Ode to unsavory lesbians / tatiana de la tierra --
I dream of horses eating cops / Joshua Jennifer Espinoza --
The clouds can't hold shit / Aziza Barnes --
Self portrait / Erika L. Sánchez --
Constellated / Myriam Gurba --
Lick my butt / Justin Chin --
Boy with thorn / Rickey Laurentiis --
Killing Mark / Richard Blanco --
in the cut / Julian Talamantez Brolaski --
Tyler, Texas / Cedar Siga --
You! Inez! / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson --
To a straight man / Eduardo C. Corral --
suicide note #1 / Luther Hughes --
Survivor 2014 / Pamela Sneed --
Wright Park / Rick Marot --
Consulting the bones / Muriel Leung --
Heavy / Hieu Minh Nguyen --
The lost woods as elegy for black childhood / Derrick Austin --
Self-portrait as a door / Donika Kelly --
Last words of the honey bees / Jess X. Snow --
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